PBIS
CALL TO ACTION
We moving the CALL TO ACTION to the beginning of the
Weekly Bulletin to emphasize the needed follow-up to these items…
● REFERRAL CHANGES – COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS
We made some changes to the
Referral system – in the “Guardian Contacted” section, we added a new check box
question where you identify how you have been communicating with families – we
understand that your communication is not limited to parent calls.
The choices for “Guardian
Contacted” are now:
□ Phone Call
□ Jupiter Message
□ Progress Report Sent Home
□ Emailed Parent
We also added a short answer
question labeled “Please provide your tutoring days/hours for this course:”
Hopefully, these changes are
helpful to the teacher – school communication!
● DOWN THE HOMESTRETCH…
We are officially in the
homestretch – we have 4 weeks of classes left before Regents examinations. Make sure your students know this and
appreciate the importance of finishing the school year strong. Tie this strong finish to college and summer
school. Students must understand the
grades that they receive in June will be the ones that colleges will see and
ultimately determine whether or not they are scheduled for summer school or not.
PROMOTE
THE TUTORING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN GETTING STUDENTS READY FOR THE REGENTS
● MAINTAINING SCHOOL TONE
As we enter the home stretch of
the school year, it is critical that we need to be UNIFIED as a staff in enforcing our school rules to maintain
our school tone. Please be consistent
and model the correct behaviors our students need in order to SOARR to college
and career readiness.
NO
FOOD IN CLASSROOMS
– students can only eat in the student cafeteria & the student lounge - no
food should in classrooms before, during or after school – no staff or students
should be eating in any computer lab
DRESS
CODE – every
week there are zero dress code infractions which is certainly not reality–
nobody is reporting these infractions – please make these referrals, so we can
follow up with these students and help set the proper tone and attire here at
HSFI
PROPER
USE OF HALL / HEALTH CENTER PASSES
– students can only leave the classroom with a pass / students going to the
Falcon Health Center must use that specific pass
ELECTRONIC
EQUIPMENT POLICY
- electronic equipment are only allowed to be used in classrooms for
instructional purposes – students must not be allowed to take out their phones
during class and do not let students charge this equipment in your classrooms
ELEVATORS – students are not allowed on
staff elevators unless they have their own elevator card / ask students to show
their elevator passes when they are in those elevators
EXCITING
EVENTS THIS WEEK
● 42 AIR CONDITIONERS GOING TO BE INSTALLED ON WEDNESDAY
All our AC efforts will be felt
this week as 42 units are scheduled for installation on Wednesday! We are scheduled to be the first school to
fully air conditioned, so any classrooms that do not get ACs will get them
soon. Combine this with the air
conditioning of our auditorium, HSFI is in a much better place comfort-wise.
● SENIOR EXIT INTERVIEWS
Our guidance staff will be conducting
‘Senior Exit Interviews’ on Monday, May 15th and
Tuesday, May 16th, in the auditorium.
Our seniors will be filling out senior surveys along with this exit
interview. We are requiring seniors to bring a copy of their
college acceptance letter and financial aid package for the
school they will be attending. The main focus on the financial aid
package is that the school is going to be affordable - we always want to
advise students against taking excessive loans, which would exceed 7-10K.
● STUDENT SHOWCASES THIS WEEK – INDUSTRY FASHION SHOW – PLEASE COME
& SHOW SUPPORT
The Industry Show is this Thursday, May 18, 2017 with a reception at 6:00 pm and the
show at 7:00 pm which typically runs a half hour. This event is the
culmination of four years of hard work by our dedicated staff and students who collaborate to design, construct and model every
garment. This year’s show will honor
Mr. Gary Wassner who is one of the most influential people within the fashion
industry and has graciously agreed to attach his name to the event to help fundraise
for the school. The Advisory Board’s fund raising benefits us in many
ways including their recent air conditioning contribution.
Thank you to the Fashion Design department
for their extraordinary efforts in preparing our students throughout these four
years to be ready for this show. Thank you to our Fashion Show Director,
Ms. Broadbelt, for her efforts in leading this production.
You can RSVP to Ms. Anika Carter at ACarter15@schools.nyc.gov / ACarter15@hsfi.us / extension 8194 / Room 819.
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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MAY
15
*OP Bell Schedule
DEPARTMENT MEETINGS /
INTER-
VISITATIONS
WEEK
SENIOR EXIT INTERVIEWS
*PBIS Behavior Team Meeting
Per. 3 - Room 821
*PBIS Committee Meeting
Per. 6 - Room 821
PM Supervisor:
M Frank (Rm. 121)
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16
*Regular Bell Schedule
SENIOR EXIT INTERVIEWS
PM Supervisor:
J Tallone (Rm. 201)
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17
*Regular Bell Schedule
PERCEPTION SURVEY
DISTRIBUTION
PM Supervisor:
A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)
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18
*Regular Bell Schedule
PERCEPTION SURVEY
DISTRIBUTION
INDUSTRY FASHION SHOW
6pm
PM Supervisor:
N Moore (Rm. 228)
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19
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
S Rau (Rm. 829)
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THE ANSWER IS IN THE
ROOM
Here are some highlights of the best practices shared
after the last round of intervisitations; all are focused on the use of
TWR, other scaffolds, as well as the use of socio-emotional practices in class.
In the Science department, Mr. Stampone
embedded some TWR in a modern physics lesson to scaffold students understanding
of the hydrogen energy level diagram. The "because, but, so" activity
prompted students to grapple with the negative energies of bound electrons.
In the English
department, Ms. Dawson created a TWR outline to help her students with poetry.
In the Math
department, Ms. Klepacki worked with her trigonometry classes on
foldables. Using notes from class, her students created their
own foldables to assist with studying the logarithm laws. Below is
an example of one of the student's work.
Also in the English
department, Ms. Thomas is using to TWR to help her students make social
emotional connections. Students identify where they are on the mood meter
and then use "because/but/so" to explain why, or to show what they
will do to improve their mood. Example: "I'm in the blue
today, so this weekend I'm going to make sure I do something fun with my
cousins."
To see these
activities and more join the HSFI Google+ Page found here. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108340703393557258737
*If any staff
member would like to share a lesson, activity, or best practice,
send it to Ms. Paz at SPaz@schools.nyc.gov or Mr. Kearns at kkearns@schools.nyc.gov
ANNUALIZATION
The Academic & CTE
Accreditation Committee met this past week and we will be moving forward with
the preparation involved in executing Annualization for the 2017-18 school
year. The large majority of our staff that
filled out the Annualization survey either supported or were open to this
shift. Hopefully, all your questions
were answered in the Q&A that I sent out.
We will continue to update everyone on how these plans are shaping
up. Thank you for being open to this
change that should benefit our students.
As always, if you have any questions / concerns, please let me know.
HSFI
GRADUATION ON JUNE 27
Our graduation will take place on
Tuesday, June 27 at 3pm at the United Palace (Manhattan – 175th
Street & Broadway) - https://www.unitedpalace.org/
We moved our graduation from
Hunter College to United Palace because our students will get 7 or 8 tickets
each as opposed to 3 tickets.
Tuesday, June 27 is a regular
school day and the day before the last day of school. We will need some teachers to be at school
for the limited number of students that will probably be in attendance. Staff can also decide to attend graduation
that will include help setting up beginning at 2pm. All staff – please fill out this survey to
list your preference for this day:
PERCEPTION
SURVEY
HSFI Teachers:
On Wednesday, May 17 and Thursday, May 18, 2017, you will choose 2
classes to administer the 2017 NYC Perception Survey. The goal of the 2017 Student Perception
Survey is to provide teachers with students’ feedback about their classroom
experiences. This survey is NOT
used as an evaluation measure for teacher performance.
Students will complete the survey on their phones on Wednesday,
May 17, 2017 by visiting the following site; www.StudentPerceptionSurvey.nyc, and logging in with an
assigned access code. Please follow up with any students absent on that date
and make sure they complete surveys by Thursday, May 17, 2017. All teachers
will receive two class sets of access code letters to hand out to students.
Access codes may only be used once.
If you have any questions about the survey, please feel free to
contact AP Danielle Silva at ext. 1251 or email: dsilva3@schools.nyc.gov or dsilva@hsfi.us
There are some guidelines to keep in mind while administering the
NYC 2017 Perception survey to your class:
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DOs
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DONTs
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||
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DO
encourage students to take the survey.
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DON’T
suggest to students that taking the survey is required.
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DON’T
make students feel like they will be penalized for incomplete surveys or not
taking the survey.
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DO
provide directions for completing the survey and answer simple process
questions.
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DON’T
influence students’ interpretation of survey items.
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DO
provide translations support or explain the meaning of survey questions when
asked.
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DON’T
complete the survey on behalf of respondents.
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||
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DO
tell students that their responses will not be shared with anyone in the
school.
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DON’T
ask, encourage, or force students to share their survey responses with
anyone.
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DO
encourage students to answer honestly.
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DON’T
suggest that students answer in a particular way.
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|
DO
create an environment in which the students feel that they can take the
survey without any influence over their responses from anyone.
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DON’T
make students feel that their survey responses are being monitored or
reviewed by school leaders or other school personnel.
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||
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DO
remain, as much as possible, at the front of the room to avoid the appearance
of reading student answers or attempting to influence students as they
complete the survey.
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DON’T
communicate with students while they are taking the survey unless necessary.
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DO
answer simple process questions
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DON’T
influence students’ interpretation of survey items.
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DO
ensure that no one can tell which student answered which survey.
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IMPORTANT
INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS
● SURVEY ON FEEDBACK FROM RIGOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT &
INTERVISITATIONS
In planning for next
year, we want your feedback and reflections from the professional development
and intervisitations from this work’s on our Problem of Practice – There is inconsistency across
classrooms in delivery of rigorous instruction that is “customized, inclusive
and motivating.”
Here are the
questions from this brief survey:
(1) Please identify
1-2 main takeaways from our professional learning sessions focused on building
the level of rigor in instruction that you have implemented in your classroom
practice.
(2) Please identify
1-2 most useful strategies that you observed from classroom intervisitations
that you have implemented in your classroom practice.
(3) Please identify what you
would like to see in next year's professional development plan related to our
school's problem of practice that 'There is inconsistency across classrooms in
delivery of rigorous instruction that is “customized, inclusive and
motivating?'
Here is the survey link:
● WRITING REVOLUTION UPDATES
TWR
Reminder: I've shared a folder with you in Google Drive called May 15 TWR
Target Student / Teacher-Created Activities.
Submissions are due by the end of the day on Monday, May 15th.
If you have one of the TWR Target students listed below, name the file with the Student's First Name and Last initial as well as the TWR skill and subject.
For example: Tarlee T Quick Outline ELA
If you are submitting a recent teacher-created activity (not student-specific), name it with the TWR focus and subject. (All 9th and 10th-grade ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies teachers can submit work here even if they don't teach one of the target students)
Example: Topic Sentences Global
Target Students:
ACOSTA JAILYN
ARMFIELD QUIORA
BANSCAK SMITH LEONA
BURGOS ASHLEIGH
CASTELAN ANTHONY
COMPRES ASHLY
CRUZ NYAH
ENNISS JORDYNN
IQBAL SOFIA
KHAN SORAYA
LYONS DEVANTE
OJEDA EMILY
RIVERA JASMINE
RODRIGUEZ TATIANA
TEAH TARLEE
VILLA AIMEE
WILLIAMS TIARA
● PHOTOSHOP EXAMS – STUDENTS MIGHT BE A LITTLE LATE
Submissions are due by the end of the day on Monday, May 15th.
If you have one of the TWR Target students listed below, name the file with the Student's First Name and Last initial as well as the TWR skill and subject.
For example: Tarlee T Quick Outline ELA
If you are submitting a recent teacher-created activity (not student-specific), name it with the TWR focus and subject. (All 9th and 10th-grade ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies teachers can submit work here even if they don't teach one of the target students)
Example: Topic Sentences Global
Target Students:
ACOSTA JAILYN
ARMFIELD QUIORA
BANSCAK SMITH LEONA
BURGOS ASHLEIGH
CASTELAN ANTHONY
COMPRES ASHLY
CRUZ NYAH
ENNISS JORDYNN
IQBAL SOFIA
KHAN SORAYA
LYONS DEVANTE
OJEDA EMILY
RIVERA JASMINE
RODRIGUEZ TATIANA
TEAH TARLEE
VILLA AIMEE
WILLIAMS TIARA
● PHOTOSHOP EXAMS – STUDENTS MIGHT BE A LITTLE LATE
Photoshop
certification exams will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays and that some
students will be late and will have a late pass.
● SPECIAL EDUCATION IMPORTANT REMINDERS
As
we begin to plan for next year we have pushed up IEP meetings for students in
order to ensure their appropriate placement for the 2017-18 school year. With
this in mind, you may have received an influx of IEP Teacher reports within the
last few weeks. Your feedback and participation is crucial in our being able to
create a quality IEP. Please take a moment to complete these forms and let the
teacher who sent you the form, or Ms. McGuinness know if you have any
questions. Thank you for your continued support of students with disabilities!
OPERATIONAL
NEED TO KNOW
● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY
● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/
● MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 EMAIL MIGRATION
Mr. Abdallah has put
together a PDF guide to Microsoft Office 365 Email Migration. Please look it over and follow the directions
to complete this migration.
● PRINTER CARTRIDGES FOR GLENN SEARS
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
We would like to make one more delivery of
used printer cartridges this year in order to receive payment that will go
toward the Glen Sears Scholarship Fund.
As always, used printer cartridges can be dropped off at Room 244, and
left outside the door if locked, before 3PM.
● WAGEWORKS / TRANSIT BENEFITS PROGRAM –
SUMMER SUSPENSION
Employees who wish to suspend their
transit deductions on all summer checks and resume these deductions in
September must enter the following dates in Payroll Portal up to May
1:
Payroll Bank: Q742/Q744 - Suspend
date 01/01/17 Resume date 08/25/17
Payroll Bank: E745 - Suspend
date 06/02/17 Resume date 08/22/17
● UNSUPERVISED STUDENTS IN CLASSROOMS &
OFFICES BECOMING A PROBLEM
Under
no circumstances are you to leave students unsupervised in your classroom or
office, or any other space in the building if you are a coach or club/activity
supervisor. Ask students to step out of
this location while you are gone and have them reenter when you return. If anything happens to those students in that
space, you will be held responsible and need to explain why you allowed these
students to be unsupervised.
● DO NOT USE THE STUDENT COMPUTER LAB DURING
THE LUNCH PERIODS
The
student computer lab in Room 201 has been a big hit – please do not use the 201
computer lab during the lunch periods to free up computers for students. If we need more computers in department
spaces, please let me know and we will get them installed.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
● WEBSITE LINK TO TAKE ATTENDANCE AT STUDENT ACTIVITIES
● WEBSITE LINK TO VIEW ATTENDANCE RECORDS
In
order to sort / filter the list, you must click on the temporary filter icon
which is located next to the printer icon (looks like a wine glass).
● UPCOMING STUDENT ACTIVITIES
□ Prom
– 5/20
□
Spring Festival – 5/23
WEEKLY
PARENT COMMUNICATION
● FASHIONABLE TIMES BLOG
Just like we maintain a blog for staff, we
maintain a weekly blog for HSFI Parents that includes a weekly message from
me. The link is:
STUDENT
INFORMATION RESOURCE
● NYC DOE STUDENT PROFILES
The NYC Department of Education has created a central
location to access key student information – www.nycenet.edu/studentprofile
You have been emailed a one page summary of this
resource. Here are the key categories of
the ‘Student Profile’:
● Grades
– current and historical report card grades
● Assessments
- previous Regents scores
● Attendance
- current and historical daily attendance including lateness
● Schedule
– students’ current schedule
● Details
– student biographical and demographic information including Special Education
and English Language Learner (ELL) status
● Enrollment
– enrollment history including all NYC schools attended
● Guardians
– all the adults on the students’ biographical record including contact
information and preferred language
STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR
The
SOARRing staff showcased below come from nominations from their supervisors and
their colleagues. You can nominate a
colleague by using the email: PBISDataTeam@hsfi.us
Please
include the reason why your colleague has SOARRed!
Thank
you to all the HSFI staff members that contributed to the awesome annual
Fashion Show – there were so many people involved in the show’s production that
I will be sending a separate email this week thanking everyone who was involved
– for now, Thank you to MS. BROADBELT for her leadership as the
Fashion Show Director and teaching a senior Fashion Design class at the same
time; Thank you to our other senior Fashion Design teachers - MS. BALMIR, MS. RICCI, MS. CISSE, MS. DAVID, MS. PARISSE, MS. YOUNGBLOOD
& MS. BATTS;
Thank you to MS. DONLIN (FEIL) for working with our models;
Thank you to MS. VACCARO for organizing and executing our ticket sales
which is a heavy lift; Thank you to MS. ARCAMAY for the exquisite poster
design; Thank you to MR. RUSSELL for doing the photography of
the show; Thank you to MS. WEINREB for her extraordinary
efforts in honoring former HSFI Alexandria Gayle who passed away.
Thank
you to all the staff members who have contributed to our best practices Google
+ Community over the last two weeks - MR. STAMPONE, MS. DAWSON, MS. KLEPACKI
& MS. THOMAS
– the sharing spirit at HSFI is alive and well!
Two
weeks we had staff from the Superintendent’s office visit the school, Thank you
to MS. PAZ, MS. MAGNER, MS. DYE & MS. LaTANZA for welcoming these visitors
into their ICT classes.
Thank
you to MS. SELLECK for her work with our Visual Merchandising students
in the creation of the new installments of our windows – as usual, they are
beautifully done.
Thank
you to MS. CHAVEZ & MS. SILVESTRE for all their phenomenal work connecting with middle schools and
enticing prospective applicants to apply to HSFI. Over 2,000 7th graders
attending our Middle School Fashion Feeder show.
Thank
you to MS. LOOSER for her efforts in leading the Student Ambassador
visits to OPs during the school year – this peer mentorship is crucial to our
students learning from one another.
Thank
you to MS. SAN JORGE & MS. INCE for stepping in and working with various parents of Special
Education students this week.
Thank you to MS. THOMAS & MS. COLLINS for actively participating in an IEP meeting this week.
Thank you to MS. THOMAS & MS. COLLINS for actively participating in an IEP meeting this week.
VTODs
FOR THE WEEK
Our VTODs will now be lexical
arrays of terms that are connected in meaning but often reflect differences in
tone, mood, or levels of intensity. For example: peek, glance, scowl, stare, and glare.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
LEARNING RELATED VTODs
Monday, May 15
Demeaning: (adj.) belittling, degrading.
Craig seemed to lack the self-awareness to see how often he made demeaning
remarks to his peers. “The comment is
irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle.”
Tuesday, May 16
Nuance:
(n) a small
difference in color, tone, meaning or feeling. “A lot of the nuance gets lost
when you reduce this complex matter to a hashtag.” Facial expressions can have
many nuances, with even a slightly raised eyebrow speaking volumes.
Wednesday, May 17
Constrain: (v) to control, restrict or
limit something. Constrained by the presence of the stern-looking stranger, the
children hardly spoke during the meal. The woman refused to allow her
creativity to be constrained by tradition or circumstance.
Thursday May 18
Align: (v) to arrange things so that
they form a line or are in proper position.
How can you adapt the choices you make to align them with the image of
your own best self? The text aligns with
the bottom of the picture.
Friday, May 19
Noxious: (adj.) 1. a harmful influence on
mind or behavior. In recent years, cyberbullying has emerged as an especially noxious way to harm others. 2.
physically harmful or destructive: For
years, noxious smog has been encrusting the historic cathedral with soot.
DATA
TEAM REPORT
Below are the registered concerns
submitted by staff members through Staff Referral Form:
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INFRACTION CATEGORY
|
INCIDENTS
APRIL
19 – MAY 4
|
INCIDENTS
MAY
5 – 11
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CHANGE
|
|
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10
SCHOOL DAYS
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5
SCHOOL DAYS
|
|
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MINOR ISSUES
|
|
|
|
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DEFIANCE
/ DISRUPTION
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18
|
10
|
-8
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SELLING FOOD
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0
|
0
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No Change
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ELECTRONIC DEVICE
VIOLATION
|
6
|
4
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-2
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PROVIDING FALSE
MISLEADING INFORMATION TO SCHOOL STAFF
|
0
|
0
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No Change
|
|
LEAVING CLASS /
SCHOOL WITHOUT PERMISSION
|
9
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2
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-7
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DRESS CODE
|
0
|
0
|
No Change
|
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MAJOR
ISSUES
|
|
|
|
|
HARASSMENT /
BULLYING
(PHYSICAL /
VERBAL / CYBER)
|
5
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2
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-3
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WEAPONS
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0
|
0
|
No Change
|
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VANDALISM
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0
|
0
|
No Change
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|
THEFT
|
7
|
0
|
-7
|
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CHEATING /
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY
|
0
|
0
|
No Change
|
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PHYSICALLY
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR / FIGHTING
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0
|
0
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No Change
|
|
SEXUAL AGGRESSION
|
0
|
0
|
No Change
|
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE
|
1
|
0
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-1
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INCIDENT OF GROUP
VIOLENCE
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0
|
0
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No Change
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ARSON
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0
|
0
|
No Change
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YEAR-TO-DATE
ATTENDANCE
CURRENT
SCHOOL POPULATION: 1636 Students
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|
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WEEKLY
ATTENDANCE RATE
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88.5
%
[Last Week: 88.7 %]
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ADDITIONS
TO THE BLOG
If you are interested in adding
something to the Weekly Bulletin Blog, please email Angela Ianniello – AIanniello@schools.nyc.gov – by Wednesday of that
week. Submissions emailed after this
deadline will be placed in the following week’s Blog.
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